I think you probably want to stretch the 2 parallel white zebra landing lines on your Liaoning model. You have a super hobby.
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PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)
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I think you probably want to stretch the 2 parallel white zebra landing lines on your Liaoning model. You have a super hobby.
Yes, that caught my eye as well, it obviously is not to scale, and someone thought it would look good on there???
Well, as you mentioned the Rusisans of course do have the SU-34 Full back which is a side-by-side seating arrangement for a strike version of the SU-27 line.
The Russians currently have 34 or 35 of these aircraft and they are in low-rate production. They plan on having 124 total aircraft by 2020. I know of no plans for the Russians to navalize these aircraft for carrier operations.
The PLAN has never, to my knowledge, indicated any interest in them eiter, nor do I expect them to. Wiith their own J-16for the PLAAF and a Tandem Seat J-15 for the PLAN, they will have no need to.
As to the AEW aircraft, it looks like a scaled down/bastardized version of the four-engined Beriev A-50 AWACS.
Or maybe a scaled down version of the four engined PLAAF KJ-2000 AWACS...to make it fit on deck.
That's my guess.
But they made it too small. Sort of like the SU-34 shown on deck, it is just a what-if/dream/fanboy placement on the deck.
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If the model of A-50 or KJ-2000 were full scale size, its wings would stretch 2/3 of the way across the widest part of Liaoning's deck and its very presence would probably stop all pretense of any other flight operation on the deck dead in its tracks.
kwaigonegin
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I really like the sea more than anything LOL. The way the artist made the wake and how the prow cuts through the 'water'.... very good color scheme too .. quite impressive. The only major technical error is the sub is floating too high but that would just be real nitpicky on my part.
I have a few other nits to pick.
1. The ships should have a lot more wake for the amount of bow wave they are making.
2. A ship generated wave shouldn't have 4-5 crests within the length of the ship unless the ship is going dead slow, and then again its bow wave shouldn't be so prominant
3. The submarine is riding far too high out of water
4. There is just no way so many large surface combatants would cluster so close together while at sea.
1. The ships should have a lot more wake for the amount of bow wave they are making.
2. A ship generated wave shouldn't have 4-5 crests within the length of the ship unless the ship is going dead slow, and then again its bow wave shouldn't be so prominant
3. The submarine is riding far too high out of water
4. There is just no way so many large surface combatants would cluster so close together while at sea.
kwaigonegin
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dang chuck! remind me not to invite you to the party ... sure all those are valid points but l still really like the sea.
Chuck...it's a model for pity's sake. A representation, and clearly one that is taking a lot of license to show things how they would like to see them...or think they may one day be.If the model of A-50 or KJ-2000 were full scale size, its wings would stretch 2/3 of the way across the widest part of Liaoning's deck and its very presence would probably stop all pretense of any other flight operation on the deck dead in its tracks.
So...yes, there are all kinds of issues as regards an effort to model it exactly. But that was clearly not their intent.
As to the sea states...again, it's a model. It's just showing things the way someone who may well have never been to sea before, or even studied naval matters, thinks things would appear.
All in all, it is a nice display...not meant to be an actual, factual, down to the centimeter model of how things are.
As to ships "never" getting that closely grouped. Well, in actualy exercises or formations where they are actually carrying out a mission...yes, that is so. But for PR purposes, and photo ops, sometimes they do get very close, all grouped together.
That's the Abrham Lincoln Strike Group running together in tight formation for a photo Op in 2010 as they prepared for UNREP. UNREP is one of the missions where up to three ships will cruise that close abeam of each other like that...in nice straight lines.
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If they really do build 001As (STOBAR) rather than 002 (CATOBAR), I hope they are built with an option for EM cats... which would be possible if it were equipped with IEPS.
That would make them far more relevant in the long term.
That would make them far more relevant in the long term.
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